Samsung RF30HBEDBSR

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20230623-DFD9E-2147346832. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Samsung RF30HBEDBSR. Source model text: RF30HBEDBSR/AA. Incident: Samsung French door refrigerator keep icing up in the refrigerator side behind the fan panel e and fan does not work due to ice building up causing food to get spoiled. Once Ice is builds up then fan stop working.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20220123-2A182-2147357870. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Samsung RF30HBEDBSR. Incident: My Samsung Refrigerator has been malfunctioning for the past 3 years specifically with ice build up behind the panel door freezing up the evaporator fan causing it to malfunction and inturn the refrigerator does not cool resulting in spoiled food and health hazard related to consuming that stored food.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20220718-13A52-2147354942. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Samsung RF30HBEDBSR. Source model text: RF30HBEDBSR/AA. Incident: Samsung refrigerator (RF30HBEDBSR) forms an ice ball behind evaporator panel and won�t cool compartment. The temperature goes above 45degF and can cause food to spoil. To solve this, you have to take out all the food and the shelves from the fridge, take off the evaporator panel and use a hairdryer to clear the ice ball. Otherwise, the fridge won�t cool properly. This problem comes back after a week. This is a known defect in Samsung refrigerators.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20220218-04951-2147357528. Matched catalog product: Samsung RF30HBEDBSR. Incident: I own a Samsung Refrigerator Model RF30HBEDBSR/AA that is dangerously defective. The air circulation fan in the refrigerator compartment freezes up and causes the temperature to rise without indication. This is a known common issue which I was unaware of until searching for information about it.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20211122-89334-2147358683. Matched catalog product: Samsung RF30HBEDBSR. Incident: We bought our french door Samsung refrigerator in 2015. The ice maker broke within the first two years. It was fixed since it was under extended warranty. Since then the back cooling vent freezes over . At least once a month we have to defrost the whole refrigerator, in order to restart the ventilator to make it work again. The units temperature goes up to 56f .we had to throw away food and medication.We did put an official complain at [REDACTED] in 2021 to samsung directly.To which Samsung stated that the unit has no recalls. They refused to service the unit, when asked for a supervisor ,they declined stating there is no higher authority to help us.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20210805-65801-2147361346. Severity: Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional. Product: Samsung RF30HBEDBSR (Samsung Refrigerator Model RF30HBEDBSR). Incident: I have a Samsung Refrigerator, Model RF30HBEDBSR, purchased in late 2014. The refrigerator suffers from multiple design defects, some of which cause potential dangers to consumers. The ice maker is defectively designed. After multiple prior attempted repairs, I had the ice maker completely replaced, at a cost exceeding $800, in 2019. More recently, I discovered another design defect, as a result of which the refrigerator compartment temperature appearing on the display panel on the front of the refrigerator did not accurately reflect the actual temperature inside the refrigerator. The display showed a temperature of 34 degrees. The actual temperature, measured with a thermometer, was 57 degrees. We had food spoilage over a period of several days, resulting in illness to members of our household, and the spoilage and loss of hundreds of dollars worth of food. Today, we had a repair technician to our home and he determined that the fan was not working. He removed a panel on the interior of the unit, at which point he found a red electrical supply wire to the fan that was hanging loose, apparently broken. This was in an area of the fridge that is covered by a plastic panel and not accessible, meaning that the broken wire could not have resulted from one of us bumping it, etc. The broken wire hanging in the fan compartment apparently had sparked on one or more occasions, as there were brown burn marks on the back side of the panel. The broken wire and defective fan not only caused food borne illness, but also created risks of fire or, presumably, electrocution. I will be pursui